... perhaps it would be improved as a trophy if elevated on a pedestal of Se- | the Malakoff if we had our choice. axD Torny.—Whig, or Whaig, is the Scotch for Whey, which became a sobriquet of drovers, and @ representative of bandits. It was first applied ...

... that long head of his, would have refused office and helped himself to the leadership so strangely abandoned by the ci-devant Whig Premier. But I should suggest that the cooperation of Palmerston is not in itself a sufficient sign that Lord John has not ...

... with the two pre- vious candidates, for, after what Mr Laing puts forth in another column of this day's paper, about Whig opposing Whig, no gentleman of half Mr Laing’s spitit of honour, could brook to write one thing and act another, by coming for- ward ...

... fever stilllingered among the shipping. The small-pox and influenza were also prevalent. Mr Philip Moril states, in the Bangor Whig, U.S., that disease, supposed to allied to that which has infected the potato crop, has attacked the thistle and mullen, both ...

... Majesty's Council. The Earl of Aberdeen consequently proceeds to Osborne, and accepts the charge Premier, with a coalition and Whigs, including Lord J. Russell, Sir J. Graham, Mr Gladstone, Goulburn, and Mr Sydney Herbert. The Right Hon. Sydney Herbert will ...

... cheats of a base oligarchy ; and that the Act, falsely called “ The Reform Act,” shall in like manner be re; pealed as a modern Whig sham and imposture. And be it further enacted, that, John Bright shall be and he is hereby empowered to abolish the aristocracy ...

... about politics at the present moment, Barry may botch away at the new houses of Parliament till he is as old as the Juvenile Whig, and till they are as old as the hills, though they look twice as antiquated already. The rogues in grain are honest in corn ...

... ; pow the fuor- steps of rarely echo in the House, and we are reduced to the of being ome of the last and most links im the Whig tail, ovly to be gut int) the House on divimons of the party whip protuse With respect to politics, I have no in ean- didiy ...

... From the Mi « | Lord Der testantism or by intend to abjure either Pro- 3 he does not intend to form a coalition either with Whigs or Peelites; he does not intend (after the a; ed fashion of the day) given in his adherence, and which will form the basis ...

... thii faction clamoured against well-known and well tried candidate, who might almost be described more a Presbyterian than a Whig, and in favour a gentleman whom they never heard of before, ant who for all they knew might Turk or Pagan In the Northern Burghs ...

... nothing in it.” It so bappened, how- ever, that we were wrong, Mr Laing having really ob- tained office under the heads of the Whig and Peelite an the has duly announced. Immediately prior to the announcement—that is to say, on Wednesday last—our great c ...

... who may not so obstinate on such a point. Far better, say we, that the Protectionists should come into power, and that the Whigs should be placed the position where they have ever shown themselves to most consistent and most useful, vis., opposition, than ...